re: Russian tanks tried to hide in the woods, but oops..

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Ukraine must be winning this war. They have drones and superior firepower. As of today, I still haven’t seen the Russians kill a single Ukrainian soldier from the videos I’ve seen. All the posted vids by the MSM and even here on this board demonstrate Russias ineptness of not killing anyone but innocent civilians.

To top it off, the Russians are getting raped by drones and their tanks are getting repoed by old Ukrainian farmers. The Russian body count must be over 10K. The proud Ukrainian troops are winning this war no doubt and it’s thanks to Biden and NATO for their sanctions.

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I know you are being sarcastic, but the terms of "winning" when it comes to wars is very subjective, and different for every war.


The Russians are definitely losing this war. Maybe they take Ukraine, but the "aura" of a scary Russian military is gone.

And we are also seeing first hand, just like the entire world is seeing, that NATO military equipment and technology is so far advanced than the Russian (and Chinese, who are even behind the Russians in technology) that this has become a showcase for NATO on why you shouldn't frick with us.

There is no way Russia tries to invade a NATO country now, or strongarm them.

And the same goes for China.

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sass. You’ve clearly thought it through fairly extensively, and while your overall point could be right,

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I think you missed my point.

How hard would it be to have objective journalism that posted honest narratives? Look, I have zero reason to believe not a single one of the videos or facts are/were fake. Even though several have been proven false like Snake Island incident or the Ghost of Kyiv for example.

Even still I think this war can still go either way but when I look at the maps it shows overwhelmingly that the Russians are advancing all over Ukraine but when I see the articles and videos like the one in the OP, I think well “maybe my eyes have deceived me”.

The only thing that I can say for certain about this conflict is “who frick really knows what is going on out there” and why are so many invested when our country's borders are being overrun and our domestic problems are not being addressed. In fact, it’s getting worse as we type. Enjoy your soirée!

I think everyone should watch Blackadder goes Fourth.

Not just because it’s absolutely hilarious, but because it manages to capture the absolute savagery and senselessness of modern warfare without being as dark and dour as I am.

This One always stuck in my craw.
General Melchett:
Don't worry my boy, if you should falter, remember that Captain Darling and I are behind you.
Captain Blackadder : About thirty-five miles behind you.

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Seems like tanks are somewhat useless against drones.

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Which is one reason the Marine Corps has abandoned armor. All that “arse” is easily detectable and wiped out swiftly by far cheaper weapons.

Looks totes real. Are we at war with west or east Hogwarts, someone remind me please

Tanks have slanted frontal armor for a reason. I have no idea what Putin is doing wasting his force like this.

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Which is one reason the Marine Corps has abandoned armor. All that “arse” is easily detectable and wiped out swiftly by far cheaper weapons.

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That’s has exactly zero to do with why the Marines got rid of armor.

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War, at its core, was meant to be, at least on some level, personal.

The more we remove all the humanity from it, the more we make it calculations and pushing a button and bang, boom, boys don’t sit at the table at Christmas…

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War was never meant to be personal. War is and will always be a continuation of politics by other means.

I hate to see it.

Putin, will probably get inpatient and start using bombs to destroy towns.

What I can see happening is he could possibly use a smaller nuclear weapon to make a statement.

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You know, you at least have to respect the tankers, on all sides, in the first two World Wars. Really any before the dawn of this style of war. At least those did battle on roughly equal terms. There’s respect, on a soldiers level, in mutual combat.

That…shooting fish in a barrel.

There’s no glory or honor or even dignity in that sort of thing. Someone at a computer pushing buttons and erasing lives thousands of miles away, like a goddamned video game.

War, at its core, was meant to be, at least on some level, personal.

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Your romanticism of war-making was clearly formed on the bloody lyric poetry battlefield and does not come from a man that has been on an actual battlefield of mortal combat. It is some of the most tone-deaf drivel on this forum which is saying something.

No man in combat ever cared where the bullet came from that saved his life, be it from his battle buddy 10 feet away or from Creech.